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VOL 82 NO. 7 PERRY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1953 ESTABLISHED 1870^
Panthers Will Go After Title
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In Tourney Here Next Week
BOYS’ TOURNAMENT PAIRINGS
PERRY, FEBRUARY 24, 25, 26, 27
perry
8:45 Wednesday
DAWSON 8:45 Thursday
CUTHBERT
8:15 Tuesday—
WARNER ROBINS
7:30 Wednesday Finals, 8:45 Friday
BUENA VISTA
Consolation, 7:30
SYCAMORE
7:30 Tuesday
EASTMAN
7:30 Thursday
HAWKINSVILLE
9:30 Tuesday
FORI VALLEY
BUSINESS WOMEN SELL 346 DOGWOODS
TO BEAUTIFY CITY IN I’OWN CONTEST
The first project of the Business
Woman s Civic Club in the Better
H.mu . Contest—the sale and
planting of dogwoods—met with
excellent success, Mrs. Gladys Cul
pepper. club president ,said yester
day.
The club sold the amazing total
of :j46 dogwood trees and Nursery
man Pat Cartledge will plant them
in the next few days.
The Perry Garden Club, which
has agreed to take charge of the
beautification phase of the home
town program, therefore has an
other excellent project to add to I
the highly successful camellia show
which drew almost 900 people to
Perry on Feb. 7 and 8.
"We are very proud of the res
ponse to the sale of dogwood
trees," Mrs. Culpepper said. “We
regret that we cannot sell anymore
but the lateness of the planting
season prevents us from handling
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any other orders. We want to
thank the people of Perry for their
hearty response to this effort. We
believe these‘dogwoods will be an
outstanding attraction in Perry in
the next few years.”.
Ferry Scouts Place
Fourth in Rally
Perry Troop 96 placed fourth in
the Peach Belt District Boy Scout j
I Rally at Fort Valley last Thursday 1
| night.
Montezuma won first place, Fort
l Valley No. 88 second and Cochran
1 third.
Perry placed fourth in inspec
i tion and in the rope tying con
test. The local boys were disquali
fied in rope climbing and sled
race by some hard luck.
The Perry boys were led by
Scoutmaster David P. Hulbert.
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DAVID GRAY
Man of Experience
Houston Counlians
Hurl in Collision
Two Houston countians were in
jured Tuesday in a collision of a
car and truck between Macon and
Warner Robins, The Macon Tele
graph reported.
Bibb Deputies C. E. Welliver
and T. E. Keen identified the in
jured as Mrs. L. A. Kirkland, 30,
j of Perry ,and Walter Land, 31, of
; Bonaire. Mrs. Kirkland was admit
; ted to the Macon Hospital, where
! her condition was described as
fair. Land was dismissed after
trcatme..t , hospital attendants
said.
The Bibb officers said the car,
driven by Mrs. Kirkland, ran into
the rear of a truck operated by
William E. Atwater, 28, of Macon.
Damage to the car was estimated
at SBOO and $l5O to the truck.
Mr. and Mrs.* Floyd H. Tabor
had as their guests for the week
end Mr. and Mrs. Jack Jenkins of
Swainsboro.
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TOMMY MOBLEY
The Mighty Mite
The Perry High School Panthers,
winners of 26 out of 28 games this
season, will attempt next week to
wrest the Third District Class B
basketball championship from the
strong Fort Valley Green Wave.
The tournament will begin here
next Tuesday night and run
through Friday night, when, ac
cording to the dopesters, Perry
and Fort Valley are likely to meet
in the finals. But even the dope
sters admit that this season has
them bamfoozled because some of
the results of games have caused
them to blush over their predic
tions.
Perry is in a bracket with Daw
son, Cuthbert, Warner Robins and
Buena Vista. Fort Valley’s bracket
includes Sycamore, Eastman and
Hawkinsville.
• Opens at 7:30 Tuesday
The tournament will open Tues
day night with Sycamore playing
Eastman. Sycamore is the favorite
in this game, which begins at 7:30
p. m. Cuthbert will meet Warner
Robins at 8:15 p. m. Tuesday and
Fort Valley will meet Hawkins
ville at 9:30 p. m. Cuthbert and
Fort Valley are favored to win
these games,
Perry gets into the competition
on Wednesday night at 8:45 o’clock
meeting Dawson, which has only
an average record. The Perry-
Dawson game will be preceded by
. a game between Buena Vista and
the winner of the Cuthbert-War
nor Rcbins game.
The semi-finals will be held
Thursday night, beginning at 7:30
and,the finals will be held Friday
■ night, also starting at 7:30.
1 Two Darkhorsc Teams
I Perry, Fort Valey and Hawkins
■ ville are the top seeded teams in
the tournament, with Buena Vista
nd Cuthbert appearing to be the
■ kind of darkhorse teams that could
. knock off the favorites at any
f time.
Win, lose or draw, the Perry
; team has had a successful season,
s but a victory in the tournament
would be the best possible climax
> 'o the season. Middle Georgia
:eems to have the cream of the
, crop in Class B basketball and it
) is believed that the winner of the
' Third District crown will have a
. mighty good chance of copping the
1 tate title to be decided in Macon
a little later.
Members of the varsity squad
- at Perry are David Gray, Billy
. Powell, Billy Beckham, Joe Lev
f erette, Franklin May, Tommy Mob
ley, Billy Brock, Jack Miller,
i James Logue, Martin Beeland and
John Malone.
The Perry High Panthers had a
profitable weekend here at the
expense of two Atlanta teams—
defeating Sylvan High, 77-41, Fri
day night and Brown High, 50-35,
Saturday night.
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He’s the Tallest
j Bridge Claims Another Victim; How Long Will YOU Let It Go On?
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BRIDGE ALWAYS WINS: Pe Wee Barnes, Atlanta truck driver, is another motorist who
can testify that Big Indian Creek Bridge on U. S. 341 South is too narrow. Barnes,
driving a Terminal Transport, Inc., truck last Thursday night, was crowded into the
bridge as he was about to clear it on his way south. But the right side of his tractor
and trailer caught the last three posts on the too narrow bridge and threw it out of
control. He has made the same run for five years, indicating it is too narrow even for
a driver who knows the danger. Many citizens who use this road and whose children
travel over this bridge to and from school daily are upset about the increasing number
of collisions on it. Barnes was unhurt but other victims of the bridge were not so fortu
nate.
City Will Vote N Month
On Natural Gas System Here
The Perry City Council this
week completed arrangements for
financing the city’s proposed nat
ural gas system and set March 24
as the date for a citywide referen
! dum on the proposal.
Under terms of the agreement
reached with three firms of in
vestment brokers, the city is guar
anteed the necessary funds, the
net interest cost of which will not
exceed four and three-fourths per
cent. Aiter the election is held the
securities will be offered for sale,
and the best preposition available
will be taken.
In announcing the council’s act
ion, Mayor Mayo Davis pointed
out that this arrangement simply
assures Perry of financing the
system and sets a maximum rate.
“It leaves the door open for
shopping for cheaper money when
the time comes,” he said.
No(« a Debt against City
Mr. Davis also pointed out that
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the certificate issue is not a gen
eral obligation on the part of Per
ry and that no funds will be used
to retire the certificates except
revenues from the system. A pro
vision of the ordinance passed by
council calling the election states
that the certificates “shall not
constitute a debt against Perry
and the City shall not exercise the
power of taxation for the purpose
of paying the principal and inter
est of any such certificates so is
sued.”
The legal advertisement calling
the referendum appears elsewhere
in the Home Journal.
James Sanders of th<* engineer
ing firm of Ray Littrell and Co.
is working with the city in ar
ranging for the election.
The Mayor and Council voted
iast Friday to accept the offer of
three financing agencies, Juran
and Moody, Herbert J. Sims and
Jompany and Watkins, Morrow
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JOE LEVERETTE
Forever Hustling
8 Pages This Week
Only a Nickel a Week
i- and Company, to buy the $845,000
■- wprth of revenue refunding certi
d j flcates .
-t j Speaking to the Kiwanis Club
- j Tuesday, Mr. Sanders said the city
y)could pay off the debt in seven
s years under especially favorable
I: conditions but that the certificates
/ I are figured on a 30-year basis.
2 No Way for City to Lose
3 He explained that there is no
possible way for the city to lose on
the proposal, because the gas sys
tem itself stands good for the debt
’ and that the city cannot levy a
3 tax to pay it off. The earned rev
enue of the system is pledged to
pay off the debt.
Mr. Sanders said that natural
’ gas compares with the cost of bot
tled gas at about $1.25 for natural
* gas to $1.90 for bottled gas. The
! comparison between the cost of
1 natural gas and kerosene is diffi
j cult to measure because the effi
f ciency of the oil heater must be
taken into account.
Natural gas offers three advan
| tages, he said. First, it is attrac
tive to new industry, second, it is
cheap, dependable, clean and con-
I venient, and third, it will provide
the City of Perry with a good
source of revenue. He figured that
the city stood to make as high as
$25,000 a year by operating the
system. When the revenue certi
ficates are paid off, the city will
own the system outright.
Pipeline Underway
The pipeline which will bring
the gas to Perry, Warner Robins,
Hawkinsville and Cochran, already
is being built, Mr. Sanders stated.
Within the next two to four weeks,
the Federal Power Commission is
expected to approve plans for the
systems in the four towns and the
system should be operating by
| October 1.
In a question and answer session
following his talk, Mr. Sanders
said that natural gas is less dang
i erous than bottled gas, thit it kills
fewer people in homes than run
ning water, but that it will kill
people if not handled carefully.
Serves 3 Other Towns
The pipeline comes off a main at
Bolingbroke and will run between
Perry and Warner Robins to Hawk
insville and Cochran. The four
cities will share in the cost of the
pipeline construction and Perry
itself will save about $90,000 by
this cooperative plan, Mr. Sanders
said.
Complete plans and specifica
' tions for the Perry system already
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